Monday, 23 April 2018
985 The Paper Man
First viewed : 8 May 1991
This is another real obscurity, an Australian mini-series on BBC Two.that it seemed like only I was watching . A couple of months earlier, I'd had an interview in Bradford and while there bought a behind-the-scenes book on Prisoner Cell Block H. It was absolutely riddled with errors but did trail a couple of series that came to the UK not long afterwards, this being the first.
The six-part series told the story of Philip Cromwell an ambitious Australian newspaper man who becomes a major global player after buying up fading British newspapers and installing new technology. No prizes for guessing who might have inspired it. John Bach played Murd...sorry, Cromwell while Rebecca Gilling and Peta Toppano ( the hook for me of course ) were his girlfriend and wife respectively. Peta still looked pretty good but was a bit wasted in a windrow dressing role.
It was an absorbing drama with Bach's Cromwell emerging as a rather more sympathetic character than his real-life counterpart as his ambitions take their toll on his family and friends. There was a sharp change of tone for the final episode as Cromwell becomes a pawn for nefarious CIA designs on Australia's resources and it suddenly became a political thriller.
I enjoyed it but it's never been repeated.
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